MAY 14, 2026 · PROCESS
Painting with ash after the rain
On making pigment from what the city leaves behind.
Request the noteDetroit / Earth
Est. 1987
Impressionism for the late modern age
Paintings from the edge of everything.
Spunky McGee paints the hum of a world running hot—its towers, screens, storms, and stubborn little miracles.
Enter the workTomorrow, Possibly, 2025
Selected works
2023—2026
WEATHER SYSTEMS✳GLASS TOWERS✳LAST TRAINS✳FIRST GARDENS✳WEATHER SYSTEMS✳GLASS TOWERS✳
01 / Selected work
Evidence
of arrival.
Landscapes made from contemporary residue: sodium light, exhaust, push alerts, heat shimmer, and hope.
02 / Statement
I paint the end of the world as a place we keep commuting to.
McGee’s paintings occupy the charged second between catastrophe and adaptation. His surfaces collect the visual debris of modern life, then soften it through the broken light of impressionism.
The work refuses simple despair. A seedling, a lit window, a solar panel turning toward dawn—small futures remain possible everywhere.
Spunky McGee
03 / Field notes
From the studio floor.
FEB 02, 2026 · OBSERVATION
The particular blue of an empty office
Notes from a midnight walk through the financial district.
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